WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:02.129 --> 00:00:07.800 [Saint-Saëns: “The Aquarium” from Carnival of the Animals] 00:00:19.890 --> 00:00:20.890 Hello boys. 00:00:20.890 --> 00:00:24.279 I get a lot of people on YouTube calling me “degenerate,” but I’m still not sure 00:00:24.279 --> 00:00:25.279 what that means. 00:00:25.279 --> 00:00:30.109 I try to be open to criticism, so I’ve decided that what I need is a glorious knight of wisdom 00:00:30.109 --> 00:00:33.920 to set me straight, and I think I’ve found just the man. 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:40.250 Some call him the valiant champion of mother Europe, the ever-chosen of the gods, the radiant 00:00:40.250 --> 00:00:45.170 paladin of the Fourth Reich—but to this priestess of blasphemies he’ll always be: 00:00:45.170 --> 00:00:46.320 The Golden One. 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:56.720 “A young prince, chosen to take the mantle of the ages—“ 00:00:56.740 --> 00:00:58.000 Oh my god. 00:00:58.200 --> 00:00:59.900 Look at his butt. 00:01:00.020 --> 00:01:01.360 Oh my god. 00:01:01.360 --> 00:01:03.800 Daddy, can I have some meat? 00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:05.900 Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys! 00:01:05.900 --> 00:01:06.900 [Roar] 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:08.280 Oh, Daddy. 00:01:08.340 --> 00:01:11.520 You know, Lars, things have really changed since the last time we talked. 00:01:11.530 --> 00:01:16.030 I’m a fair maiden now—to a certain extent—and I’ve been chaste since I started my transition, 00:01:16.030 --> 00:01:18.960 so, in a sense, I’m a virgin. 00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:22.710 And I don’t know about the rest of these decadent sluts but I for one care about a 00:01:22.710 --> 00:01:24.549 little thing called purity. 00:01:24.549 --> 00:01:29.020 So, now that my decade of gender-dysphoric, alcohol-drenched debasement seems to be coming 00:01:29.020 --> 00:01:32.560 to a close, I think I’m really ready to begin the training, master. 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.660 But first, let us fend off degeneracy by purifying ourselves in a bath of Swedish lakewater and 00:01:37.660 --> 00:01:38.980 pure absinthe. 00:01:39.100 --> 00:01:39.960 It’s time. 00:01:40.140 --> 00:01:41.000 [gong] 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.780 [“Alone” by Heart] 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:56.040 [R&B] 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:12.420 [Laugh] 00:02:12.420 --> 00:02:13.460 What? 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:15.340 Is this is the bad kind cultural appropriation? 00:02:15.340 --> 00:02:16.840 It is isn’t it. 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:21.660 zMmmm they're shiny and I want them. It's not my fault black people have good ideas. 00:02:21.660 --> 00:02:24.080 What am I supposed to do, not steal them? 00:02:24.160 --> 00:02:27.080 I’ll pop it out. 00:02:27.090 --> 00:02:31.440 Alright thou resplendent champion of the north, hit me with your finest wisdom. 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:37.530 “I’m going to go train some shoulders and admire myself in the mirror. 00:02:37.530 --> 00:02:40.540 That’s always a nice thing to do.” 00:02:40.540 --> 00:02:43.960 Well, at least we agree on something [door open] 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:45.260 Aha! 00:02:45.260 --> 00:02:48.940 Autogynephilic narcissist exposed! 00:02:48.940 --> 00:02:52.230 Abigail, isn’t not invading women’s bathrooms like your whole thing? 00:02:52.230 --> 00:02:55.980 Misogynistic mental illness confirmed! 00:02:55.980 --> 00:02:58.430 Abigail, what is your damage? 00:02:58.430 --> 00:02:59.430 Are you okay? 00:02:59.430 --> 00:03:02.120 How’s your mom doing? Is everything alright? 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:12.520 [Rossini, “William Tell” Overture] 00:03:16.820 --> 00:03:18.020 You wanna get in the tub? 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:19.020 Ew. 00:03:19.880 --> 00:03:21.740 It’s your loss, babygirl. 00:03:21.780 --> 00:03:23.700 And your gain, sweet prince. 00:03:24.990 --> 00:03:26.340 He has an Instagram. 00:03:26.340 --> 00:03:27.960 And it’s just delectable. 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.390 Meat’s back on the menu boys. 00:03:30.390 --> 00:03:33.890 He carries the Charles Atlas seal of approval. 00:03:33.890 --> 00:03:35.840 What ho ye jaunty lads! 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.210 My captain, my King! 00:03:39.320 --> 00:03:44.960 Yaaaas! 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:47.560 If the Golden One didn’t exist I would have to invent him. 00:03:47.570 --> 00:03:48.620 I need him. 00:03:48.620 --> 00:03:50.500 And maybe you need me too, Lars. 00:03:50.500 --> 00:03:54.760 I’m the moon to your sun, the, uh, Brünnhilde to your Siegfried. 00:03:54.760 --> 00:03:58.190 As you become more of a burly masc, I become more of a silky femme. 00:03:58.190 --> 00:04:02.060 But you know, I’m noticing that even though you’re straight, you don’t seem super 00:04:02.060 --> 00:04:04.970 interested in the bodies of the women in your life. 00:04:04.970 --> 00:04:10.460 Now, this is just a casual suggestion, but maybe what you want is a fair maiden like me. 00:04:10.640 --> 00:04:12.480 I’m not like the other girls. 00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:14.840 I’ve got the Ts and the D. 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:16.739 On second thought, leave trans women alone. 00:04:16.740 --> 00:04:19.060 I don’t want that blood on my hands. 00:04:19.060 --> 00:04:22.160 Well, this is no longer a relaxing bath. 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.560 And that’s why we never bathe with fascists. 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:34.500 [Beethoven, Symphony 1, Mvt 4] 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:59.600 Well, I blocked my T, I popped my E. Let’s talk about degeneracy. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:02.780 What are people talking about when they call something or someone “degenerate”? 00:05:02.780 --> 00:05:07.150 Well, let’s look at some examples from my YouTube comments section and see if we can 00:05:07.150 --> 00:05:08.360 figure it out from context. 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:13.100 “transgender communist degenerate” “kill yourself you fucking degenerate tranny freak" 00:05:13.100 --> 00:05:14.580 “degen tranny lel” 00:05:14.590 --> 00:05:17.980 “Trannies grow out of their degeneracy by the time they are senior citizens, or at least 00:05:17.980 --> 00:05:21.471 that’s what I would assume since you never see old dudes in dresses, lol what’s up 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:22.300 with that?” 00:05:22.300 --> 00:05:23.500 “This is degeneracy. 00:05:23.500 --> 00:05:25.280 You ought to be slung from a tree.” 00:05:25.280 --> 00:05:26.730 Everybody likes to rhyme. 00:05:26.730 --> 00:05:28.800 “you little homos are future cannon fodder. 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.040 A bunch of physically weak degenerate dogs. 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:32.180 The End.” 00:05:32.180 --> 00:05:34.860 Aww, these people are trying so hard to upset me. 00:05:34.860 --> 00:05:37.390 They’ve only got one card in the deck though, alas. 00:05:37.390 --> 00:05:42.860 Anyway, what I’m gathering from that sumptuous sampling of the choicest fuckboys is that, 00:05:42.860 --> 00:05:46.730 like burly Nord and his fair maiden, the accusation of “degeneracy” is usually 00:05:46.730 --> 00:05:48.760 paired with a loathing of queerness. 00:05:48.760 --> 00:05:53.540 Now it’s not always just about queerness, in fact fascists and social conservatives use 00:05:53.540 --> 00:05:58.940 the word "degeneracy" as a catchall term for to refer to queers, non-whites, communists, 00:05:58.940 --> 00:06:03.020 “communists,” people with disabilities, basically anyone who gets killed when the 00:06:03.020 --> 00:06:04.020 fascists win. 00:06:04.020 --> 00:06:05.669 But where does the word degeneracy come from? 00:06:05.669 --> 00:06:08.440 Let’s watch an instructional video to learn more. 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:16.340 The word “degenerate” comes from the Latin prefix de-, which means away from, and the 00:06:16.340 --> 00:06:19.330 Latin word “genus,” which means race or kind. 00:06:19.330 --> 00:06:23.110 So to be degenerate is to no longer be of your race or kind. 00:06:23.110 --> 00:06:26.700 And if you think this already sounds pretty fashy, you’ve been paying attention. 00:06:26.700 --> 00:06:31.320 The current usage of the term “degenerate” crystallized in the 18th and 19th centuries, 00:06:31.330 --> 00:06:35.530 when Lamarckian proto-evolutionary biology, bourgeois disgust toward the urban working 00:06:35.530 --> 00:06:39.790 class, and a growing colonialist awareness of supposedly “inferior” ethnic groups 00:06:39.790 --> 00:06:44.419 gave rise to “degeneration theory,” the idea that civilization is in decline due to 00:06:44.419 --> 00:06:46.210 biological devolution. 00:06:46.210 --> 00:06:50.330 Hold on, aren’t these the exact same dingbats responsible for scientific racism? 00:06:50.330 --> 00:06:52.340 The exact same dingbats, yes. 00:06:52.340 --> 00:06:56.640 And one of the chief dingbats was the French aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau, one of the 00:06:56.651 --> 00:06:58.610 intellectual grandfathers of Nazism. 00:06:58.610 --> 00:07:02.930 Gobineau wrote a book called Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, in which he 00:07:02.930 --> 00:07:07.340 developed the idea of the Aryan master race, warned that miscegenation would lead to social 00:07:07.340 --> 00:07:11.199 chaos, and gave the word “degenerate” its modern fashy definition. 00:07:11.200 --> 00:07:12.199 M’lord? 00:07:12.980 --> 00:07:18.680 "The word degenerate, when applied to a people, means that the people no longer has the same 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:24.950 intrinsic value as it had before, because it has no longer the same blood in its veins, 00:07:24.950 --> 00:07:31.120 continual adulterations having gradually affected the quality of that blood....in fact, the 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:37.120 man of a decadent time, the degenerate man properly so-called, is a different being from 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:42.210 the racial point of view, from the heroes of the great ages....I think I am right in 00:07:42.210 --> 00:07:47.860 concluding that the human race in all its branches has a secret repulsion from the crossing 00:07:47.860 --> 00:07:49.160 of blood...." 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:54.480 Notice that the “degenerate man” is the product of a “decadent” time. 00:07:54.490 --> 00:07:57.919 And “decadence” is a concept closely related to degeneracy. 00:07:57.919 --> 00:08:03.380 “Decadence” literally means decay, which, like degeneracy, implies a fall from a previous 00:08:03.380 --> 00:08:04.380 state of grace. 00:08:04.380 --> 00:08:08.699 By the late 19th century in Europe, concerns about decadence were everywhere in the European cultural 00:08:08.699 --> 00:08:09.699 imagination. 00:08:09.699 --> 00:08:13.540 During this period, German nationalist composer Richard Wagner wrote his essay condemning 00:08:13.540 --> 00:08:18.070 Jewishness in music—which he first published under the pseudonym “Freigedank,” which 00:08:18.070 --> 00:08:19.480 literally means freethought. 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:22.660 That’s right, he pulled the goddamn free speech card. 00:08:22.660 --> 00:08:24.920 [airhorn “Turn Down for What”] 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:31.960 Then the Jewish doctor Max Nordau published a pseudo-medical book called Degeneration 00:08:31.980 --> 00:08:35.320 accusing Wagner and other contemporary artists of degeneracy. 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:38.880 And around the same time a bunch of queer, absinthe-swilling artists reclaimed the word 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:41.380 decadence as the title of their movement. 00:08:41.380 --> 00:08:44.270 Everyone was accusing everyone of degeneracy and decadence. 00:08:44.270 --> 00:08:45.940 It was 4chan writ large. 00:08:45.940 --> 00:08:50.300 So the idea that Western civilization has become decadent is not exactly new then. 00:08:50.300 --> 00:08:51.380 Not at all. 00:08:51.380 --> 00:08:55.399 The idea that European civilization is in some way suicidal or self-destructive goes 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:59.190 back at least as far as the 18th century, when scholarship about the fall of the Roman 00:08:59.190 --> 00:09:03.500 Empire led to speculation about what causes civilizations to decline. 00:09:03.500 --> 00:09:08.120 And one of the hypotheses was that effeminate hedonistic emperors and general decadence 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:12.000 left the Romans vulnerable to butch Visigoths and Vandals. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:13.730 Is there any truth to that? 00:09:13.730 --> 00:09:14.730 No. 00:09:14.730 --> 00:09:17.550 It’s vulgar pseudo-history encouraged by social conservatives. 00:09:17.550 --> 00:09:21.910 The “decadent” emperors—Nero, Caligula, Elagabalus—reigned from the first to the 00:09:21.910 --> 00:09:23.170 third centuries. 00:09:23.170 --> 00:09:26.440 The empire didn’t collapse till the end of the fifth century, which leaves at least 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.040 two hundred years between the decadence and the collapse, at which time the Empire was 00:09:30.040 --> 00:09:31.170 thoroughly Christian. 00:09:31.170 --> 00:09:36.010 And in any case, the Eastern half of the empire still survived for another thousand years. 00:09:36.010 --> 00:09:38.020 Well, hail Caligula! 00:09:38.020 --> 00:09:42.390 But you know, a lot of people still believe this story about ancient civilizations collapsing 00:09:42.390 --> 00:09:43.720 because of the queers. 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:48.250 Here’s “feminist” Camille Paglia on how the transgenders destroy civilizations. 00:09:49.380 --> 00:09:53.640 “The movement toward androgyny occurs in late phases of culture. 00:09:53.640 --> 00:09:58.760 As a civilization is starting to, uh, unravel.” 00:09:58.760 --> 00:09:59.820 Hang on a second. 00:09:59.820 --> 00:10:02.900 I’m gonna need to shift up a gear for this. 00:10:02.900 --> 00:10:09.780 “Okay, and you find again and again in history, in the Greek art, you can see it happening. 00:10:09.780 --> 00:10:16.700 All of a sudden there’s a kind of, uh, you know, the sculptures of um handsome nude young 00:10:16.700 --> 00:10:21.760 men athletes that used to be very robust, okay, in the archaic period, suddenly begin to seem 00:10:21.800 --> 00:10:24.560 like wet noodles toward the end, okay? 00:10:24.560 --> 00:10:29.400 People who live in such times feel that they’re very sophisticated, they’re very cosmopolitan.” 00:10:29.420 --> 00:10:30.380 [belch] 00:10:30.380 --> 00:10:33.880 “’Homosexuality, heterosexuality, so what, anything goes’ and so on.” 00:10:33.880 --> 00:10:39.180 “But from the perspective of historical distance you can see that it’s a culture 00:10:39.180 --> 00:10:46.440 that no longer believes in itself, and then what you invariably get are people who are 00:10:46.500 --> 00:10:52.740 convinced of the power of heroic masculinity on the edges, whether the Vandals or Huns, 00:10:52.800 --> 00:11:00.680 or whether they’re the barbarians of ISIS, you see them starting to mass outside of the 00:11:00.680 --> 00:11:02.280 culture, and that’s what we have right now.” 00:11:02.280 --> 00:11:09.160 “There is a tremendous and rather terrifying disconnect between the infatuation with the 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:14.180 transgender movement in our own culture and what’s going on out there, okay?” 00:11:14.180 --> 00:11:22.200 “That’s why I’m concerned, I feel it’s ominous, I question whether the transgender 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:27.020 choice is indeed genuine in every single case.” 00:11:28.570 --> 00:11:31.160 Riley J. Dennis. 00:11:31.160 --> 00:11:38.910 Why did you destroy ancient Rome? 00:11:38.910 --> 00:11:43.339 So the idea is that our infatuation with effeminate decadence means we’re going to be destroyed 00:11:43.339 --> 00:11:45.570 by real men—you know, like ISIS. 00:11:45.570 --> 00:11:47.900 This doesn’t deserve a response. 00:11:47.900 --> 00:11:49.450 We’re moving on. 00:11:49.450 --> 00:11:51.810 Where does fucking Nietzsche fit into all this? 00:11:51.810 --> 00:11:52.810 Oh god. 00:11:52.810 --> 00:11:55.769 Do we really have to do this? 00:11:55.769 --> 00:12:01.519 So there’s this dead German asshole named Friedrich Nnnn, who’s every 19-year-old 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:02.519 edgelord’s favorite philosopher. 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:08.170 Hey baby, the ladies tell me I’m Apollonian in the streets, Dionysian in the streets—in 00:12:08.170 --> 00:12:09.170 the sh— 00:12:09.170 --> 00:12:12.200 Shhhhhh go to sleep. 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:15.959 Basically what he said is that the moral system of Western culture, especially Christianity, 00:12:15.959 --> 00:12:20.779 is “decadent,” in the sense that, unlike pre-Socratic Greek society, we have all these 00:12:20.779 --> 00:12:23.220 hang ups about guilt and sin and the afterlife. 00:12:23.220 --> 00:12:27.390 And Nietzsche says these ideas originate with people who are weak and sick, and that they 00:12:27.390 --> 00:12:31.600 repress our basic biological instinct to value strength and beauty and worldly happiness. 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:36.140 In practice this turns out to be a Rorschach test that everyone reads their own ideas into. 00:12:36.140 --> 00:12:40.649 There’s a fascist interpretation that says we need to cast off the slave morality idea 00:12:40.649 --> 00:12:45.519 of universal human equality to make way for the triumph of beefy Aryan studs, and then 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:48.769 there’s the more progressive interpretation that says we need to stop worrying about like 00:12:48.769 --> 00:12:54.269 fucking Christian morality man and reinstate the cult of Dionysus, which, okay, I’d be 00:12:54.269 --> 00:12:58.100 down to go to that party, especially if we don’t have to talk about Nietzsche. 00:12:58.100 --> 00:13:01.000 [airhorn “Turn Down for What”] 00:13:02.620 --> 00:13:06.980 What all this is leading up to is simply the point that by the time 20th century fascism 00:13:06.990 --> 00:13:11.490 was really kicking into gear, European society was already primed with a couple centuries 00:13:11.490 --> 00:13:13.370 of degeneracy discourse. 00:13:13.370 --> 00:13:18.290 Racist pseudoscience was combined with degeneration theory and Wagnerian mysticism to produce 00:13:18.290 --> 00:13:20.490 the core ideas of National Socialism. 00:13:20.490 --> 00:13:21.400 Namely: 00:13:21.400 --> 00:13:27.020 1. The German people and nation are like a biological organism that is prone to infection and decay. 00:13:27.020 --> 00:13:32.620 2. Jews, Poles, Roma, homosexuals, communists, and the disabled are degenerate elements that 00:13:32.620 --> 00:13:33.620 contribute to decay. 00:13:33.760 --> 00:13:38.399 And 3. The degenerate elements must be purged in order to secure the health and existence of 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:39.399 the organism. 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:43.760 So there you have it: the history of degeneration theory from Foppington to Fascism. 00:13:43.760 --> 00:13:46.100 Well thanks for the history lesson, doc. 00:13:46.100 --> 00:13:50.209 One particular thing I’ve noticed about modern fascists is they’re especially obsessed 00:13:50.209 --> 00:13:53.370 with breeding bountiful crops of white babies. 00:13:53.370 --> 00:13:57.050 Nazis call the Jews vermin, but it’s white people they think should breed like rats. 00:13:57.050 --> 00:14:01.160 And they specifically loath anything that stands in the way of fit white reproduction, 00:14:01.160 --> 00:14:06.670 including, as they see it: being gay, being trans, being queer, being fat, being a beta 00:14:06.670 --> 00:14:12.029 male, being a slut, being a feminist, not getting married, not having kids, having kids 00:14:12.029 --> 00:14:17.140 that aren’t white, masturbating, looking at porn, drinking alcohol, doing drugs, using 00:14:17.140 --> 00:14:18.529 birth control, having abortions. 00:14:18.529 --> 00:14:24.470 [To the tune of “My Favorite Things”] Condoms and orgies and mass immigration 00:14:24.470 --> 00:14:31.690 Malt liquor 40s and miscegenation Boys who use dildos and girls with cock rings, 00:14:31.690 --> 00:14:35.520 These are my favorite degenerate things. 00:14:36.700 --> 00:14:37.700 Very cute. 00:14:37.700 --> 00:14:40.360 But don’t you think they might have a point about the drugs and alcohol? 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:44.000 Oh goddamn, fine, we’ll talk about the alcohol thing. 00:14:45.680 --> 00:14:50.340 There’s like ContraPoints fans now who watch my videos and they look up to me, so I have 00:14:50.350 --> 00:14:52.980 to be responsible and I hate it. 00:14:52.980 --> 00:14:57.560 So look, if you’re gonna drink, I’m certainly not gonna stop you, but don’t even think 00:14:57.560 --> 00:14:59.590 about driving, okay? 00:14:59.590 --> 00:15:01.730 Drink lots of water, and pace yourself. 00:15:01.730 --> 00:15:04.209 There’s plenty of time to be blackout when you’re dead. 00:15:04.209 --> 00:15:06.970 And you’re gonna be if you don’t take it slow. 00:15:06.970 --> 00:15:11.360 Alcohol is dangerous, it’s unhealthy, it’s only fun in moderation, and it can put you 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.830 in really vulnerable situations with really horrible people. 00:15:14.830 --> 00:15:19.660 So I would never recommend that anyone get involved with alcohol for any reason. 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.780 I mean, unless you like having fun and feeling good. 00:15:24.780 --> 00:15:25.880 Where were we? 00:15:28.060 --> 00:15:34.700 Absinthe with coffee and bitchy sarcasm Estrogen crying and fruitless orgasms 00:15:34.700 --> 00:15:43.510 Antifa furries and enby drag kings, These are my favorite degenerate things. 00:15:43.510 --> 00:15:48.360 [ambient music] 00:15:51.260 --> 00:15:53.120 Hi there. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:16:00.060 I hope you’re having a soothing degenerate bath. 00:16:00.060 --> 00:16:12.740 What I want you to do is just lie back and try to relax, and I’m just going to slowly 00:16:12.740 --> 00:16:17.640 start to drip hot candlewax all over— 00:16:17.700 --> 00:16:19.840 [crash] 00:16:20.060 --> 00:16:25.840 [drone] 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:29.640 So for fascists and identitarians everything that doesn’t directly contribute to the 00:16:29.640 --> 00:16:32.430 greater cause of white procreation is degenerate. 00:16:32.430 --> 00:16:35.339 And individual fascists differ on what those things are. 00:16:35.340 --> 00:16:39.980 Most of them agree that homosexuality is degenerate, because, apparently, gay people can’t raise 00:16:39.980 --> 00:16:40.720 children. 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:45.540 Fascists venerate nuclear families of one dominant white man and one subservient white 00:16:45.540 --> 00:16:49.410 woman, because they view this situation as the perfect factory for churning out clean-cut 00:16:49.410 --> 00:16:51.029 heterosexual white kids. 00:16:51.029 --> 00:16:54.959 And if you soften the emphasis on whiteness, you get basic social conservatism. 00:16:54.959 --> 00:16:59.160 So this really isn’t just about fascism, though I do like to talk about the fascists, 00:16:59.160 --> 00:17:01.089 because they have the biggest muscles 00:17:01.089 --> 00:17:05.530 Speaking of which, a lot of rightists have realized that in the 21st century, the social 00:17:05.530 --> 00:17:07.919 conservative position is not very cool. 00:17:07.919 --> 00:17:12.070 So what what they do, is they say of course they have no problem with individual homosexuals, 00:17:12.070 --> 00:17:15.220 but only with “the gay agenda.” 00:17:15.220 --> 00:17:18.100 What they have a problem with, essentially, is queerness. 00:17:18.100 --> 00:17:19.670 Now, what is queerness? 00:17:19.670 --> 00:17:22.500 Well, people have all kinds of scholastic disputes about this. 00:17:22.500 --> 00:17:27.790 But in its most generic sense it means that you have some kind of weird sex thing, either your 00:17:27.790 --> 00:17:31.540 gender’s all fucked up or you have creative taste in sexual partners. 00:17:31.540 --> 00:17:36.030 But unlike the words “homosexual” or “transgender,” “queer” is tinged with a connotation of 00:17:36.030 --> 00:17:41.390 rebellion, often rebellion against the hetero-normative commandments of marriage, monogamy, procreation, 00:17:41.390 --> 00:17:42.520 and productivity. 00:17:42.520 --> 00:17:47.030 So social conservatives and even a few fascists claim that they’re willing to tolerate gay 00:17:47.030 --> 00:17:51.080 and transgender people, but only as long as you shut up about it, conform to straight 00:17:51.080 --> 00:17:53.620 society, and try to act as normal as possible. 00:17:53.620 --> 00:17:58.210 What they can’t stand is loud, non-conformist queerness, because think of the children. 00:17:58.210 --> 00:18:05.299 We’re talking pride parades, activists, leather daddies, genderfucks, kinksters, polyamorists, 00:18:05.300 --> 00:18:09.790 sing it with me—these are my favorite degenerate things. 00:18:10.380 --> 00:18:14.840 To fascists, the pursuit of individual happiness must be subservient to the health and success 00:18:14.850 --> 00:18:15.980 of the race. 00:18:15.980 --> 00:18:21.110 So in a sense, traditionalism is a much more collectivistic philosophy than communism, which 00:18:21.110 --> 00:18:23.900 only demands communal ownership of the means of production. 00:18:23.900 --> 00:18:28.780 At least in theory communism doesn’t tell you what gender to be, or who and how to fuck. 00:18:28.780 --> 00:18:32.460 In practice, though, there’s not a single position on the political spectrum that’s 00:18:32.460 --> 00:18:34.210 immune to complaining about degeneracy. 00:18:34.210 --> 00:18:38.880 While I was researching this video I randomly came across an article from an American communist 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:43.660 newspaper from 1976 that claims, “While we Communists oppose attacks on anyone by 00:18:43.660 --> 00:18:49.120 the bourgeoisie, including homosexuals, we do not uphold homosexuality as a democratic right. 00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:53.160 Homosexuality is a form of social sickness, a form of social perversion. 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:58.930 It is a form of bourgeois ideology which appeals especially to the petty bourgeoisie because 00:18:58.930 --> 00:19:01.280 of its appearance as sexual freedom. 00:19:01.280 --> 00:19:05.020 Homosexuality arose from class oppression and the oppression of women.” 00:19:05.020 --> 00:19:08.830 Jeez, fellow degenerates, we’re kind of short on allies out here huh? 00:19:08.830 --> 00:19:13.570 We’ve got the fascists calling us sexual Bolshevists, and meanwhile the communists are calling us 00:19:13.570 --> 00:19:14.880 bourgeois decadents. 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:16.970 Why does everyone hate decadence so much? 00:19:16.970 --> 00:19:21.620 Is pleasure really so wrong? 00:19:21.620 --> 00:19:27.340 [Beethoven, Symphony 1, Mvt. 4] 00:19:38.380 --> 00:19:41.800 [cackle] 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:49.620 Listen: I don’t want my position to be misunderstood. 00:19:49.620 --> 00:19:54.060 I know that most people will probably always be straight, cis, monogamous, and procreative. 00:19:54.060 --> 00:19:56.880 And you know, that’s probably for the best. 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.520 Someone needs to have the babies and keep society running. 00:19:59.520 --> 00:20:04.050 All we gentle decadents ask is to be allowed to enjoy our special delights in peace. 00:20:04.050 --> 00:20:07.419 My goal is not to purge masculinity from society or anything of the kind. 00:20:07.419 --> 00:20:11.390 In the perfect society created by me, there’d be plenty of beefy studs around, so don’t you 00:20:11.390 --> 00:20:12.390 worry about that. 00:20:12.390 --> 00:20:14.780 And that’s the difference between me and the fascists. 00:20:14.780 --> 00:20:18.650 I want a society where people like me are simply allowed to exist, and—this is the 00:20:18.650 --> 00:20:22.500 important part—where people who are not like me are simply allowed to exist. 00:20:22.500 --> 00:20:26.480 Fascists want a society where only people like them are allowed to exist. 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:28.270 The queer quest is to survive. 00:20:28.270 --> 00:20:30.680 The fascist quest is to be the only survivor. 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:34.580 So if society can tolerate for thousands of years the existence of priests, which is 00:20:34.580 --> 00:20:38.370 to say bejeweled men in dresses who have no children and are a giant tax-exempt drain 00:20:38.370 --> 00:20:42.720 on the economy, well, you can certainly tolerate the existence of queer people, who crack Nazi 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.750 codes, and write you musicals, and sing you songs. 00:20:45.750 --> 00:20:49.240 So if you think the meaning of life is to create as many white babies as possible, you 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:50.620 know what, fine. 00:20:50.620 --> 00:20:51.980 Go make white babies. 00:20:51.980 --> 00:20:56.039 But I really must insist upon the my right, and the right of all degenerates, to coexist 00:20:56.040 --> 00:21:01.380 alongside you in our own decadent communities of race-mixing, sexual anarchy, and rock ‘n roll. 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:03.800 [piano chords] 00:21:03.980 --> 00:21:05.060 Rock n’ roll! 00:21:05.140 --> 00:21:06.740 [piano] 00:21:06.900 --> 00:21:15.800 Rock on Gold Dust Woman Take your silver spoon, dig your grave 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:28.840 I wake up in the morning See your sunrise loves to go down 00:21:35.780 --> 00:21:44.260 Lousy lovers Pick their pray but they never cry out loud 00:21:44.940 --> 00:21:46.100 Cry out 00:21:48.740 --> 00:21:49.900 Well did she make you cry 00:21:49.900 --> 00:21:55.060 Make you break down Shatter your illusions of love 00:21:55.060 --> 00:21:58.960 Tell me is it over now Do you know how 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:02.940 To pick up the pieces and go home 00:22:04.900 --> 00:22:06.180 Oh yeah 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.440 Rock on ancient queen 00:22:11.320 --> 00:22:16.500 Follow those who pale in your shadow 00:22:18.900 --> 00:22:20.720 That is decadent 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:24.120 Rulers make bad lovers 00:22:24.760 --> 00:22:29.300 You better put your kingdom up for sale 00:22:31.520 --> 00:22:33.320 One more time 00:22:33.460 --> 00:22:36.020 Oh did she make you cry 00:22:36.080 --> 00:22:40.290 Make you break down Shatter your illusions of love 00:22:40.290 --> 00:22:45.700 Tell me is it over now Do you know how 00:22:45.700 --> 00:22:50.400 To pick up the pieces and go home 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.240 Rock n’ roll! 00:22:57.360 --> 00:23:00.640 [gong]